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So What Is It About Writers and Emotional Masochism?

So What Is It About Writers and Emotional Masochism?

Bonnie Friedman Breaks Down the Writerly Tendency for Self-Annihilation

By Bonnie Friedman | October 6, 2021

Diane di Prima Remembers Her Friend Freddie Herko

Diane di Prima Remembers Her Friend Freddie Herko

“So it was the summer of ‘54 I met you. Or the spring. Ten years ago. Sat down on a park bench beside you, in the rain.”

By Diane Di Prima | October 6, 2021

David Kushner on the Age of Disruptors

David Kushner on the Age of Disruptors

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 6, 2021

A Special Reading of A.J. West’s Haunting Novel, <em>The Spirit Engineer</em>

A Special Reading of A.J. West’s Haunting Novel, The Spirit Engineer

From Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Podcast

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | October 6, 2021

What Do NFTs Have to Do with the Music Industry?

What Do NFTs Have to Do with the Music Industry?

Zack Greenburg in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 6, 2021

Margaret Verble on Chinua Achebe, Flannery O’Connor, and <em>Wolf Hall</em>

Margaret Verble on Chinua Achebe, Flannery O’Connor, and Wolf Hall

Rapid-fire Book Recs From the Author of When Two Feathers Fell From the Sky

By Book Marks | October 6, 2021

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Reading Women on the Social and Psychological Dynamics in Women’s Crime Fiction

By Reading Women | October 6, 2021

Colorful by Eto Mori, Translated by Jocelyne Allen, Read by Brian Nishii

By Behind the Mic | October 6, 2021

On the Vivid Landscapes of Alice Munro

By Lit Century | October 5, 2021

How Writing “Vengeful Fiction” Can Make You a Better Person

How Writing “Vengeful Fiction” Can Make You a Better Person

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson on Finding Empathy in Writing and Putting Anger to Good Use

By Jocelyn Nicole Johnson | October 5, 2021

The New Climate Fiction: Grappling with the Weight of Collapse

The New Climate Fiction: Grappling with the Weight of Collapse

Emma Dries on the Limitations of Fragmentary Narrative to Portray a Fragmenting World

By Emma Dries | October 5, 2021

Dave Eggers on His Fight Against Big Data

Dave Eggers on His Fight Against Big Data

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 5, 2021

On Racial Injustice and the False Promise of Police Reforms

On Racial Injustice and the False Promise of Police Reforms

Derecka Purnell Unpacks the Drive to Seek Justice

By Derecka Purnell | October 5, 2021

Palindromes and Rooftop Iguanas: Readings by David Naimon, Victoria Buitron, and Aimee Bender

Palindromes and Rooftop Iguanas: Readings by David Naimon, Victoria Buitron, and Aimee Bender

Introducing Micro, a Podcast That Elevates Small Works with Big Voices

By Micro Podcast | October 5, 2021

Myriam J.A. Chancy on Writing Haiti and Honoring Its Local Realities

Myriam J.A. Chancy on Writing Haiti and Honoring Its Local Realities

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of What Storm, What Thunder

By Jane Ciabattari | October 5, 2021

Elizabeth McCracken Reads Her Short Story “It’s Not You”

Elizabeth McCracken Reads Her Short Story “It’s Not You”

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